Level 3
Benita's salary is 20% less than Amanda's salary and 40% less than Cecilia's salary. If Amanda's salary is $500 less than that of Cecilia's salary,
  1. Find Benita's salary.
  2. Given that Benita received a 20% pay cut, find Benita's new salary.
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Level 3
In a shop that sells t-shirts, 250 blue t-shirts were sold weekly and 25% of the remaining t-shirts that were sold were red. Of the leftover, 40% of the t-shirts sold were yellow t-shirts and the rest were black t-shirts. Given that the number of black t-shirts sold was 20% of the total number of t-shirts sold, how many red and blue t-shirts were sold altogether?
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Level 3
Sam, Martin, Aden and Ron participated in a Chinese quiz. The average number of points scored by Sam and Martin was 77. The average number of points scored by Martin and Ron was 71.5. The average number of points scored by Sam, Martin and Ron was 73. The average number of points scored by Aden and Ron was 69. How many points did each of them score?
  1. Ron?
  2. Sam?
  3. Martin?
  4. Aden?
4 m
Level 3
The average number of questions Daniel and Callie solved was 203. The average number of questions Callie and Evelyn solved was 194. The average number of questions Evelyn and Daniel solved was 181. How many questions did each of them solve?
  1. Callie?
  2. Daniel?
  3. Evelyn?
4 m
Level 3
Class A, B and C were given some chocolate bars to sell for their fundraising event. The average number of chocolate bars the 3 classes had at first was 225. After Class B sold twice as many chocolate bars as Class A and Class C sold 34 as many chocolate bars as Class B, the average number of chocolate bars the 3 classes had left was 45. How many chocolate bars did Class A and Class C sell altogether?
4 m
Level 3
The average number of playing cards Brendon and Ricky had was 450. The average number of playing cards Brendon and Jonas had was 240. If the ratio of Ricky's playing cards to Jonas's playing cards was 5 : 2, find the number of playing cards Brendon had.
4 m
Level 3
There were 286 students in a school. On the school anniversary, 56 of the girls and 45 of the boys came in green caps. The rest came in yellow caps. The number of boys who wore yellow caps was four times of the girls who wore yellow caps. How many students were in green caps that day?
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Level
Box A and Box B are identical. 78 of Box A and 35 of Box B are filled with sand. The mass of Box B with its contents is 79 the mass of Box A with its contents. The total mass of the two boxes with their contents is 528 kg. Find the mass of an empty box.
4 m
Level 3
Zoe, Fanny, Eric and Olivia shared some pens. Zoe and Fanny took 15 of the total number of pens while Eric and Olivia took the rest. Fanny had four times as many pens as Zoe and Olivia had 176 pens. Given that Eric had four times as many pens as Fanny, how many pens were there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
At a carnival, the children were put into two groups. 45 of Group F were boys and 23 of Group G were girls. Group G had twice as many children as Group F. There were 18 fewer boys in Group F than Group G.
  1. What fraction of the total number of children at the carnival were boys? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. What was the total number of children at the carnival?
4 m
Level 3
Glen, Ken, Jenson and Justin shared 105 stickers. Jenson received 15 of the stickers. Glen received 16 of the total amount of stickers received by Ken and Justin. Justin received four times as much stickers as Ken.
  1. How many stickers did Glen receive?
  2. How many more stickers did Jenson receive than Ken?
4 m
Level 3
When an ice box is packed with 25 identical bottles of soda, it has a mass of 18.4 kg. When the ice box is packed with 30 identical packets of milo, it has a mass of 7.5 kg. A bottle of soda weighs 470 g more than a packet of milo. What is the mass of the empty ice box in kg?
4 m
Level 3
Perry spent $162 on a jumpsuit. He spent 19 of his remaining money on a sweater. If he still had 49 of his money left, how much did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Risa had a sum of money. She spent $308 on a blouse and 58 of the remainder on a windbreaker. She was left with 110 of the original sum of money.
  1. What was the total amount Risa spent?
  2. How much money did Risa have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Elyse bought some pens. She gave 16 of the pens to her cousin and sold 34 of the remaining pens. After that, she bought another 171 pens and had the same number of pens that she bought at first. How many pens did Elyse buy at first?
4 m
Level 3
Bryan bought some coupons for a funfair. He used 25 of the coupons on games and 37 of the remainder on food. He bought another 77 coupons and had 31 more coupons than he had at first. How many coupons did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
A book shop sold 110 of the books in the morning. 15 of the remaining books are sold in the afternoon. The shop owner brought in another 172 books and there were 4 more books than there was at first. How many books were there in the shop at first?
4 m
Level 3
A survey was conducted with some pupils. 29 of them chose basketball as their favourite sport. 35 of the remaining pupils chose badminton. 12 of those left chose swimming and the last 56 chose gymnastic. How many more pupils chose badminton than basketball?
4 m
Level 3
Erika spent 38 of her money on 6 notebooks and 10 post-it pads. The cost of one post-it pad was thrice the cost of one notebook. She bought some more post-it pads with 14 of her remaining money. How many post-it pads did Erika buy altogether?
4 m
Level 3
A stall was selling flowers. 13 of the earnings are from the sale of 9 lavenders and 17 sunflowers. Of the rest of the earnings, 34 are from the sale of lavenders and 14 are from the sale of sunflowers. Each sunflower costs thrice as much as each lavender. How many flowers were sold?
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